The (almost gone) Taino people

The Taino were apart of the Neo Indians, the third group to inhabit the region. They spoke Arawakan and they lived in notherne Trinidad and the Lesser Antilles. They entered through Trinidad from South America around 300 BCE. They were organized in villages and had a social structure around rulers called caciques, they had ”developed a system of shifting cultivation known as conuco*”, which produced starch and sugar rich food. The Spaniards easily conquered them at the beginning of 1493, they reduced them to slaves and the Taino almost got completely wiped out by 1550. The Taino are not…